The Brunberg Fund

The Brunberg Fund is a Porvoo-based fund which Brunberg Oy started when their present factory was opened in 1988. The purpose of the fund is to support culture, especially music, in the Porvoo region. By starting the fund, the company wanted to honour the career of its long-standing owner and CEO Lennart Brunberg (1891-1945, on the right in the picture). He played the violin and the cello, and was the heart and soul of the Mimer String Orchestra, which he also conducted.

He was also active in the Porvoo Orchestral Society as well as a member of the Concert Relief Association, which invited well-known artists to perform in Porvoo.

The fund has mainly supported talented youths of the Porvoo region in their music studies. The recipients of the fund’s scholarships, mostly students of the Porvoo Regional Academy of Music, have been able to acquire tuition aiming at becoming professional musicians with the help of the fund. Most of them now work as professional musicians or music instructors.

Scholarships of the Brunberg Fund 1989-2019

1989

Satu Pulkkinen (Savioja)

violin

25.000 mk

1990

Patrik Stenström

clarinet

20.000 mk

1991

Liisa Heininen (Malmivaara)

piano

20.000 mk

1992

Annika Nummelin (Lindroos)

violin

20.000 mk

1993

Porvoonseudun musiikkiopisto, for students’ academic term fees

25.000 mk

1994

Tommi Viertonen

French horn

20.000 mk

1996

Mika Ylärakkola

bassoon

20.000 mk

1998

Jaakko Nordman

violin

25.000 mk

1999

for building MS Aleksandra

10.000 mk

2001

Linda Bärlund

violin

20.000 mk

2003

Linda Bärlund

violin

3.400 €

2006

Ludvig Bärlund

cello

3.400 €

2008

Jousikvartetti Pippurit (Rasmus Bärlund, Amanda Pursio,

4.000 €

Emma Lagerstedt and Oskari Holopainen)

2011

Max Silfverberg

trombone

4.000 €

2015

Maija Wesslund

violin

4.000 €

2019

Ocarina

choirs

5.000 €

The chairman of Brunberg Fund is Magnus Björklund. Other board members are Tom Brunberg ,Stefan Granberg, Kati Karlsson, Helena Somervalli and Martina Somervalli, . The board of the fund grants scholarships based on its members’ initiative and the opinions of experts. Therefore please do not send grant applications to the fund.